Security News > 2023 > September > Google is enabling Chrome real-time phishing protection for everyone

Google announced today that it is deprecating the standard Google Chrome Safe Browsing feature and moving everyone to its Enhanced Safe Browsing feature in the coming weeks, bringing real-time phishing protection to all users while browsing the web.

Since 2007, Google Chrome has utilized a Safe Browsing security feature that protects users from malicious websites that push malware or display phishing pages.

To provide better security, Google introduced an Enhanced Safe Browsing feature in 2020 that offers real-time protection from malicious sites you are visiting.

Google announced today that it is rolling out the Enhanced Safe Browsing feature to all Chrome users over the coming weeks without any way to go back to the legacy version.

"To block these dangerous sites the moment they launch, we're upgrading Safe Browsing so it will now check sites against Google's known-bad sites in real time," says Google.

While Google states that the data collected from Enhanced Safe Browsing is only used to protect Google apps and users, there has been a lot of concern recently about Chrome's browsing history being used for interest-based advertising as part of Google's new Privacy Sandbox platform.

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